The president of the Philippines is running for re-election with a vague message. He wants to unify the country and get it out of its economic slump. But he's never offered an apology for what his father did. Are dreams telling us anything important? And should we listen to them? Subscribe to unexplainable new episodes every sday wherever you get your pagests.
The son of repressive dictator Ferdinand Marcos was just elected president of the Philippines. All he had to do was rewrite his country’s history.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Victoria Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
CORRECTION: In a previous version of this story, our guest mistakenly said Ferdinand Marcos' body was flown from Hawaii to the Philippines in 2006. Marcos' body was returned to the Philippines in 2016. The incorrect date has been removed from the recording.
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